All-caps, all-me Twitter accounts! A fabulous police department Facebook page! It’s time for Things I Love / Things I Hate. This week I’m launching a new regular mini-series on things I think are awesome and … the other stuff. Let me know if you find it useful! I’ve found it’s often easier to see a principle when you … [Read more...] about New Mini-Series: Things I Love / Things I Hate
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Deep Creative Focus, the Long Haul … and, Yes, David Bowie
What does it mean to live an amazing life? Why put the time in to get great at something? And how can we keep having fun for the long haul? Last week David Bowie died, leaving a lot of us shocked and saddened — and leaving all kinds of “What David Bowie can Teach Us” posts and podcasts. This isn’t that. But it is a set of … [Read more...] about Deep Creative Focus, the Long Haul … and, Yes, David Bowie
Encore: How to Avoid Getting Sucker-Punched by Internet ‘Facts’
Don’t you love those Internet facts? You know, the ones that aren’t facts at all, they’re fodder for our own confirmation bias, and weapons in the Outrage Wars. For Christmas week, we have an encore episode from earlier this year. Given the current state of political discourse in the U.S. at the moment, I thought that a call for … [Read more...] about Encore: How to Avoid Getting Sucker-Punched by Internet ‘Facts’
Self-Help for Business Owners: Useful or Useless?
Self-help books, seminars, and retreats: People tend to either love them or loathe them. I have some thoughts on what’s useful for business owners — and what isn’t. I’ve noticed that a lot of online business owners tend to gravitate to self-help — maybe because we find “Dumbo’s feather” … [Read more...] about Self-Help for Business Owners: Useful or Useless?
